Fractured Fantasies by Torie N. James6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() This is Stoppard armed with the new ball, approaching the crease off his long run, with the breeze at his back: “Every stale revelation of the newly enlightened, like stout Cortez coming upon the Pacific.” Whoosh! And here’s another bouncer: “War is profits, politicians are puppets, Parliament is a farce, justice is a fraud, property is theft.” You can’t fool Brodie. It’s more powerful for the fact that Stoppard is a genuine liberal, if that word still has any meaning. ![]() Stoppard was writing about Brodie, a jailbird turned writer (at least in his own imagination), and in his famous “cricket bat” speech the dramatist’s exposure of peacock-proud liberalism still stings. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issue for just £10.įor a wounding definition of the virtuous man it is always worth revisiting Tom Stoppard’s 1982 play, The Real Thing. This article is taken from the March 2022 issue of The Critic. ![]()
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